Both the reading and the lecture talk about merits and demerits of ways to stop cane toads' population from growth. Cane toads have been transported from Central and South America and introduced to Australia to remove harmful insects. Although the reading states some ways to remove the cane toads, the lecturer finds them unsuccessful and provides three counter reasons to refute them all.
First, the reading claims that using fence to stop spreading the cane toads would be a useful idea since it had been applied once for reducing the rabbits introduced to Australia. However, the lecturer believes that whereas the fence would stop cane toads' distribution, the young toads and eggs could be distributed by stream flows and for fully spread of cane toads, a few number of their eggs and young toads are enough since they pass through the fence easily. Thus, national fence are not applicable.
Second, the reading states that organizing some group activities for volunteer works to collect cane toads and their eggs could stop them from spreading. In contrast, according to the lecture, untrained people are more likely to capture and kill native frogs, which are in danger now, unintentionally and since the young frogs cannot be differed by native frogs, volunteers might destroy them as well.
Third, the reading explains that controlling of cane toads population by designed virus would be a great idea. On the other hand, the lecturer asserts that this method would have some serious consequences for not only the Australian species but also for Central and South American species and reptiles since most of reptiles are being introduced from Australia to other areas such as central and South America and they destroy whole ecosystem. Spreading virus for nonnative Australian toads would cause the native toads of America die.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 370, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun number seems to be countable; consider using: 'few numbers'.
Suggestion: few numbers
...s and for fully spread of cane toads, a few number of their eggs and young toads are enoug...
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Line 4, column 308, Rule ID: MOST_SOME_OF_NNS[1]
Message: After 'most of', you should use 'the' ('most of the reptiles') or simply say ''most reptiles''.
Suggestion: most of the reptiles; most reptiles
...uth American species and reptiles since most of reptiles are being introduced from Australia to ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, so, third, thus, well, whereas, in contrast, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 10.4613686534 115% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 7.30242825607 219% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 6.0 12.0772626932 50% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 22.412803532 67% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1542.0 1373.03311258 112% => OK
No of words: 299.0 270.72406181 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15719063545 5.08290768461 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42196818957 2.5805825403 94% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 145.348785872 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.508361204013 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 459.0 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 3.25607064018 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 84.1581549306 49.2860985944 171% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.181818182 110.228320801 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.1818181818 21.698381199 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0 7.06452816374 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.516054230611 0.272083759551 190% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.217892041751 0.0996497079465 219% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104476745119 0.0662205650399 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.32012998669 0.162205337803 197% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0698520373073 0.0443174109184 158% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 13.3589403974 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 53.8541721854 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 11.0289183223 114% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 63.6247240618 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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